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Betancur has agreed to a U.S. request for extradition of 23 narcotics suspects, many of them sought by authorities in Miami, which is becoming one of the world's major cocaine capitals. Most wanted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is Carlos Lehder, 33, who has been indicted in Florida for cocaine importation and distribution. He is rumored to be in Peru...
...latest net of allegations, however, has some large holes. As described by NBC, Vesco's base on Norman's Cay sounds like an operation actually run on the same tiny island by Carlos Enrique Lehder-Rivas, a Colombian drug trafficker. The DEA, which began investigating Lehder a decade ago, has told TIME that he shipped at least 500 kilos of cocaine a month from Norman's Cay between 1976 and 1982. "Vesco hangs out with some of those people," says a Caribbean drug authority, "but he's not the kingpin." Finally, Caribbean drug dealers rarely trade...